357 research outputs found
Transnational migrant entrepreneurship, gender and family business
No full textDespite increased academic attention paid to migration flows in Europe, the gendered nature of transnational migrant entrepreneurial journeys within the context of a family business remains under-researched. We address this gap by investigating how transnational spaces allow women to challenge dominant ideas about their roles, and to claim legitimacy by opening branches of their family business abroad. With extensive longitudinal evidence collected over a seven-year period, we showcase four biographical narratives of women operating transnational family businesses in the UK that had originated in Eastern Europe. Adopting this novel longitudinal approach, we provide insights into how these transnational migrant women entrepreneurs exercise individual agency to overcome structural constraints by developing strategies that prioritize their own business aspirations without fully sacrificing their family ties.</p
Catalyzing change: Innovation in women's entrepreneurship
No full textEntrepreneurship and innovation are social and relational processes that occur in diverse contexts
involving multiple stakeholders. Recently, research in entrepreneurship has begun to explore
entrepreneurial processes through the lens of gender. However, unlike its entrepreneurship
counterpart, innovation research has paid limited attention to gender dynamics. Indeed, the
majority of studies on innovation focus on products, processes or organizations, with the
individual often not ‘seen’. This special issue recognizes the intertwined nature of gender,
innovation, and entrepreneurship, and in doing so, presents five articles that develop new theory
and provide new empirical evidence on the topic of innovation in women’s entrepreneurship.
Collectively, they offer new perspectives and open new avenues for future work. In structuring
this editorial, we present an overview of the state of the field, provide a multilevel future
research agenda, and introduce the articles that comprise this special issue
The gendered identity work of women leaders in family business
No full textScholars recognise gendered identity work as an important process for women leaders in overcoming tensions and contradictions between their gendered and professional social identities. This is particularly relevant to daughters in family business who often encounter cultural and familial gendered norms that position women as inappropriate for family business leadership. Despite this, there is limited understanding of how women leaders in family business employ gendered identity work to manage the competing identities relevant to their daily working lives. In addressing this gap, and answering the call for greater engagement with gender theory in family business research, the current study undertakes a novel approach within family business research by combining an identity work lens with doing gender well and/or differently. In doing so, this thesis produces empirical insights that advance current knowledge of gendered identity work and gendered relations in family business as well as gendered identity work more broadly. This was achieved through an exploratory qualitative inquiry drawing on in-depth interviews with 14 women leaders in family businesses in the Republic of Ireland. The empirical study found that women engage in different forms of gendered identity work—Blending in, Complementing, Unsettling and Challenging the Gendered Norm—to manage their competing identities. Moreover, it evidenced how these different forms of identity work related to various gender practices associated with doing gender well, doing gender differently and doing gender well and differently simultaneously. These findings advance knowledge of how family business women’s attempts at doing gender well and differently relate to how they manage their competing identities in their daily working lives. Implications for practice, limitations and avenues for future research are extended
Curriculum Area Impact Project in Sciences 3-18:Report Launch
No full textIn her role as Development Officer for Sciences 3-18 at Education Scotland, Lauren was involved in development of the Curriculum Area Impact Project Report in Sciences 3-18. The Report was launched at this presentation at the Scottish Learning Festival, by lead author Marie McAdam, HMIE, and Lauren. Both went on to take the next steps in engaging practitioners with the messages of the report, including a blog and a series of 'national conversations' around science learning in Scotland, bringing together practitioners, teachers, pupils, and stakeholders including further and higher education and industry and business representatives to take forward science education in Curriculum for Excellence. The report was subsequently updated in September 2013 to reflect continuing development in practice in Scotland's schools
Curriculum Area Impact Project in Sciences 3-18:Report Launch
No full textIn her role as Development Officer for Sciences 3-18 at Education Scotland, Lauren was involved in development of the Curriculum Area Impact Project Report in Sciences 3-18. The Report was launched at this presentation at the Scottish Learning Festival, by lead author Marie McAdam, HMIE, and Lauren. Both went on to take the next steps in engaging practitioners with the messages of the report, including a blog and a series of 'national conversations' around science learning in Scotland, bringing together practitioners, teachers, pupils, and stakeholders including further and higher education and industry and business representatives to take forward science education in Curriculum for Excellence. The report was subsequently updated in September 2013 to reflect continuing development in practice in Scotland's schools
High tech start-ups in University Science Park incubators: The relationship between the start-up’s lifecycle progression and use of the incubator’s resources
No full textUniversity Science Park incubators (USIs) have emerged as a means by which Government, academia and business can develop high technology business firms (spin out HTBFs) from initial conception through to becoming established small firms, which are ready to move beyond the Science Park confines. Although there is considerable literature on how USIs can be improved and developed there is a paucity of studies, which explore how lifecycle development within HTBFs in USIs can affect how they use the unique resources and opportunities of the USI. Moreover, there is a focus on single point in time studies, which do not adequately investigate the longitudinal dynamics of HTBF lifecycle development within USIs. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore the longitudinal use of the unique resources of the USI by HTBFs at different lifecycle stages. The research methodology involved 18 HTBFs within two separate USIs. A series of longitudinal interviews and focus groups were conducted with HTBFs and USI staff over a 36-month period. NUD*IST software was used in developing the coding and analysis of transcripts. The results show that a HTBF's propensity to make effective use of the USI's resources and support increases as the lifecycle stage of the company increases and the small-firm searches for independence and autonomy. Therefore, further research is required to investigate the following two outstanding questions; firstly, which usage pattern is associated with the HTBF's ultimate success or failure in the marketplace? And secondly, are there any services missing from the observed array that the USI could provide to enhance the HTBF's degree of ultimate success? © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
The Networked Incubator
No full text Within the current literature it is generally agreed that university incubator units offer considerable advantages to new, growth-orientated firms in the provision of shared facilities such as offices, administrative staff and access to university research and grant support. Moreover, in recent years the networked incubator has emerged as an effective mechanism that fosters partnerships between high-technology-based firms (spin-out HTBFs) and other external parties such as government support agencies and funders, thus facilitating technology transfer from universities to the economy. However, there is a lack of longitudinal studies exploring how entrepreneurial networking operates and develops and how the entrepreneur uses these networks to support growth ambitions, within USIs. To explore this issue further, this paper presents evidence from an in-depth longitudinal study of the operation of entrepreneurial networking within 12 entrepreneurial firms based in a USI, and with related stakeholders in the Republic of Ireland. The research methodology is based on longitudinal semi-structured interviews. The results show that the incubator environment enhances the development of social networks that act to support the new entrepreneur during the vital stages of firm foundation. Furthermore, the networks have a key role in facilitating the design and implementation of firm growth strategies within the USI. </jats:p
The Networked Incubator: The Role and Operation of Entrepreneurial Networking with the University Science Park Incubator (USI)
No full textExploring the re-masculinization of educational practices in entrepreneurship : A global dilemma?
No full textSense and sensibility: The role of business incubator client advisors in assisting high-technology entrepreneurs to make sense of investment readiness status
No full textFor high-technology entrepreneurs, attaining an appropriate level of investment to support new ventures is challenging as substantial investment is usually required prior to revenue generation. Consequently, entrepreneurs must present their firms as investment ready in the context of an uncertain market response and an absence of any trading history. Gaining tenancy within a business incubator can be advantageous to this process given that placement enhances entrepreneurial contact with potential investors whilst professional client advisors (CAs) use their expertise to assist in the development of a credible business plan. However, for the investment proposal to be successful, it must make sense to fund managers despite their lack of technological expertise and product knowledge. Thus, this article explores how incubator CAs and entrepreneurs act in concert to mould innovative ideas into plausible business plans that make sense to venture fund investors. To illustrate this process, we draw upon empirical evidence which suggests that CAs act as sense makers between venture fund managers (VFMs) and high-technology entrepreneurs, yet their role and influence appears undervalued. These findings have implications for entrepreneurial access to much needed funding and also for the identification of investment opportunities for VFMs. © 2011 Taylor & Francis
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